In the cultivation of my farmin educating our children, a son and two daughters, in reading, music, paintingand in occasional visits to our friends in New-York and Philadelphia, seventeen years glided swiftly and imperceptibly away; at the end of which time death, in depriving me of an excellent wife, made a wreck of my hopes and enjoyments.

Said IDA, as she supported him towards her dwelling: "How did you ever come to be wrecked on such a day as this?" Mr. P. hesitated.

Being a bad sailor, and heavily laden, she was blown from her company, and wrecked in the Straits of Magellan.

He had thought of being wrecked at night, but fearing that IDA might not be able to find him in the dark, he gave up this idea.

Margaret Fuller Ossoli, competent by love and genius to be the historian and who had collected the materials day by day, lived the life of the combatants hour by hour, was wrecked with "Ossoli, Angelo" and her manuscript, in sight of her native shore.

They had no hope of her recovery, nor could they heartily desire it; for they believed her earthly happiness was wrecked for ever, and they could ask no better fate for her than a speedy reunion with her Roger in a home beyond the grave.

It was as when you lift a wreck from the tranquil sea and let it fall again to the depths, useless to wave or shore; the black and ghastly hulk is covered; it is seen no more; but the water palpitates with circling rings, trembles above the grave, dashes quick and apprehensive billows upon the sand, and is long in regaining its quiet surface.

A ship, loaded with queensware, had been wrecked near shore, and through a vast mass of broken plates, and cups, and saucers, Mr. P. went,straight and swift as an arrow.

The mariner who had swum from the wreck to the desert shore had not a shred of costume.

Had he not reduced poor Jack Landis to a trembling wreck by five minutes of silence?

But I might have known," he added sadly, "no one could care long for such a wreck as I!"

And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, &c.

When we reached the entrance of the valley of the river of Fan-Palms, some negroes informed us that the sea had thrown many pieces of the wreck into the opposite bay.

" "I know," said Mr. Tutt, almost moved to tears by the sight of the wreck before him.

But to what purpose is observation, if we must shut our eyes against it, and appeal for ever to the wisdom of our ancestors?if we must fall into errour, merely because they were mistaken, and rush upon rocks out of veneration to those who were wrecked against them.

The wreck between New Hope and Gethsemane, by Karl, pseud. of Karl Davis, Harty, pseud. of Harty Taylor, & Doc Hopkins.

"I felt I had to do it, for I had seen a man's life completely wrecked through it.

During my stay at Mogador, a courier arrived from Sous, bringing the news of some Christians being wrecked off the coast, A Jew had purchased one poor fellow from the Arabs for two camels.

But she met her match in the second week of November, when she was engaged off the Cocos or Keeling group of islands, southwest of Java, by the fast Australian cruiser Sydney and driven ashore a burning wreck after an hour's fight, with a loss of 280 men.

it was not a case for tears; there are some sorrows that cannot be counted out in drops; a flood comes, a great freshet rises in the soul, and whirls spirit, mind, and body on, on, until the Mighty Hand comes down and lifts the poor wreck out of the flood, and dries it in the sun of His absorption.

And then, when the day was far spent, we came in sight of another wreck amid the weeds.

His constitution may well have been wrecked during the winter of 49 which Caesar himself, inured though he was to the storms of the North, found unusually severe.

She was a gentlewoman indeed, and though reduced in circumstances, surrounded by misfortunes, and daily and hourly reminded by the scattered wreck around her of her former wealth and position, she bore all with exemplary fortitude, and to the full extent of her scanty means she relieved the sorrows and ailments of the natives.

I had a presentiment that something would happen at Galle, though I could hardly have anticipated that I should be wrecked, and wrecked within the harbour!...

The following Narrative of an extraordinary escape from drowning, after being wrecked among the Rapids of the St. Lawrence, first appeared in the Liverpool Mercury, the Editors of which state that they have published it by permission of the writer, who is a well-known merchant of great respectability in that city.